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The Globe editorializes in favor of a MASSPIRG backed proposal for improved disclosure of corporate tax credit. Read the editorial here.
Read our fact sheet on tax credit transparency here. See the letter that MASSPIRG sent to members of the legislature here.
MASSPIRG urges legislative committee to pass the Budget Transparency bill (SB 1410, HB 2927) without delay. The call comes as yet another report finds transparency lacking in many state “quasi –public” agencies. Since the Budget Transparency bill was heard before the Committee on State Administration on June 25, 2009, MASSPIRG found that 7 more states have adopted online, searchable state budget websites, bringing the total number of states with searchable transparent state budgets to 29. See full letter to the committee
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Legislation Filed in the 2009-2010 Session:
• An Act Improving the Laws Relating to Ethics and Lobbying, filed by Gov. Deval Patrick and proposed by the bipartisan Task Force on Public Integrity to promote transparency and accountability in government.
• An Act Relative to Transparency in State Revenues and Expenditures (Sen. Cynthia Creem and Reps. Antonio Cabral and Jay Kaufman), which directs the Secretary of Administration and Finance to create and maintain a searchable online database detailing the costs, recipients and purposes for all appropriations, including contracts, grants, subcontracts, tax expenditures andother subsidies funded by the state government.
House Transparency Bill, Senate Transparency Bill
